This is such a gentle easy pose to do at anytime during the day- on the mat or not. Yet it offers such a wide variety of benefits to the body and mind. Benefits of this Pose:
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1) Opens those HIP + GROIN Muscles... for all sorts of other playful activity ;)
2) Opens Hip Rotator Muscles; great for people you tend to sit at work all day. 3) Helps ease chronic low back pain (which I can personally attest to) 4) Helps balance your core and open chest in advanced variations (as shown) 5) Calms the mind- thank GOD! Bonus reason: It's a DAMN good release. Physically and Emotionally. Pigeon gets you into that perfect place of hurting so GOOD. So Pigeon up + Feel Good. I LOVE this pose even though it can cause me MUCH discomfort.
Even as a yoga instructor I have my own personal challenges and my hips are quite tight. Relentlessly so that even after a wicked hip opener workshop with Nicki Doane of Maya Yoga (she is phenomenal) that left me so open I was walking different for a week, yet my tight ass hips they still managed to tighten back up! Awesome benefits of this Pose:
Challenge: Try this pose everyday for the month of August!
Camel pose looks beautiful and feels amazing.
It is one of the poses in yoga that actually incorporates nearly every part of the body, weather it be stretching or strengthening- it is working it someway, somehow. Benefits
Camel Pose is also known to have therapeutic benefits that help fight fatigue, anxiety, backache, and menstrual pains.
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